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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1474169" data-attributes="member: 63">I ended up liking this plot, so if anyone actually wants to make an adventure of it (*knocks on wood*), please ask first.Basic Plot:  A coastal city is threatened by a hurricane.  Winds in the nearby seas have been unusually weak for the past few months, but suddenly a hurricane has appeared.  Some other pressing business keeps the PCs in the city (maybe going after a 'not-too-important-to-the-rest-of-the-plot' bad guy) long enough to see that the hurricane just stops and sits about thirty miles offshore, for a week.  The city is drenched, and most of the inhabitants have fled inland, but various things beckon the party to stay.1) Why the heck is the hurricane just sitting there?2) Local Thieves' Guild members have assaulted prominent nobles that have remained in the city.  Using a dagger that steals voices, the thieves are blackmailing the nobles.  Possibly a noble friend/employer of the PCs hires them to track down a gem that supposedly once sat in the pommel of the dagger.  The voices are supposed to be in the gem.  Research-oriented parties can figure out where the gem is hidden by looking through the mostly abandoned library in the city; combat-oriented groups can kick thieves' guild butt.3) Of course, the thieves' guild wants the PCs to find the gem, because it's hidden in a place with a Forbiddance effect against evil people, a prison that unfortunately flooded in the rains of the hurricane.  The party has to go there and deal with the uneasy dead left from all the drowned prisoners.  The gem was actually swallowed by a former thief/assassin, and he's still alive, able to breathe because the gem provides him air.  He's managed to get free of his cel since the guards left, and has set some nifty aquatic traps.4) The thieves' guild has been hired by the main villains.  They need this gem, since they believe it holds the spirit of a long-dead air mage.5) In the eye of the hurricane, a dessicated, rusted iron-plated warship floats as the villains' base.  Sea and air monsters defend it, meaning the best way to get in is to hitch a ride on the thieves' guild ship when it goes to deliver the booty.  They needed to conjure the hurricane to provide enough power to release the ancient air mage.So, we've got a mostly abandoned sea-side city with lots of canals and eerie empty buildings.  Cool.  We've got a flooded prison to which evil people cannot willingly go.  Cool.  And we've got a giant storm just looming ominously in the distance.  Cool.</blockquote>

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